Somali pirates have captured a tanker carrying oil to the US, officials say. The Greek-owned Maran Centaurus was about 1,300km (800 miles) off Somalia when it was hijacked on Sunday, said the EU Naval task force (Navfor).

Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah, a physician and professor of Medicine at el-Fasher University in Darfur, specializes in working with victims of torture and sexual violence. Born and raised in Jebel Marra in west Darfur, Dr. Ahmed served as the former Direct

The insurgents used long knives to cut off a hand and a foot each from four young men in Mogadishu as punishment for theft, witnesses said. It was the first double amputation in Somalia. The men screamed in pain, and some spectators vomited.

This December's Copenhagen Conference is the fifteenth Conference Of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change. It is meant to follow the 1997 Kyoto protocol by setting global limits on emissions and goals for greenhouse gas

One of the first officials interviewed about the decision by Tony Blair's government to join the U.S.-led war speaks of 'drumbeats in Washington' before 9/11 to oust Hussein.

November 20th, 2009, Somalia announced it would ratify the convention. The USA alone is the only country that has yet to do so. This petition has been redone to reflect new information, since the original in 2007.

Slovakia restricted bus transport to Ukraine. Total of 1.25 million flu cases have been confirmed in Ukraine so far, In 18 Ukraine regions the flu reached pandemic status

Proposed open pit has two neighbouring towns on 'brink of civil war'

The Swine Flu or H1N1 is predicted to kill 30,000 - 50,000 people in the fall of 2009. Swine Flu Parody "If it Smells Like Cod, it's Swine"

Sri Lanka's war against the Tamil people has not ended. 250,000 Tamil people face nightmare conditions detained behind barbed wire in violation of international law, in concentration camps where they are killed, or subjected to torture, rape, disease, etc